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I like the way that Luke Gallagher introduces this rap:
You consider yourself a pretty well informed nerd, right? You’ve watched just about every geektastic movie and television show, and played every game there is. You have a certain level of pride in the time you spent earning your nerd cred. The things you do to attain your authoritative-ness demands respect. However, the embarrassment of being the last guy to the party is enough to shatter your world. It’s a situation we’ve all be in. Friends being all chatty cathy about something that you haven’t quite got into yet. They’re all really into it and your not. Damn friends making you feel all ashamed.
Adam WarRock sympathizes because he’s never watched a single episode of Doctor Who. And now he must face the ostracism of his friends. Click on the link to share his ordeal.
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Cartoonist William Levin explains how kids are actually programmed to behave on long car trips.
Link via Popped Culture, who says “Robot kids, can’t shut them off, can’t reboot them.”
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Batman is on Twitter, and Sci Fi Wire has culled 34 of his best tweets.
Please, someone photoshop this bat gadget.
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This funny stop-motion animated short shows a frustrated Lt. Worf trying to relax and pamper himself after a hard day of work. It was created by Joshua and Nathan Flynn and won ‘Best Stop Motion’ award category of the 2009 University of Glamorgan Glammies Awards.
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Comments Off These days, merchandise is made out of everything possible. The more popular the movie or book, the weirder the merch that seems to come out. The ultimate proof lies in the amazing mountains of merchandise produced for Star Wars. There’s even enough of these themed goodies to deck out your whole kitchen in Star Wars cooking toys, here are 12 of the most awe-inspiring Star Wars kitchen gadgets around.
While this toaster looks admittedly awesome and pretty high-quality, it’s obviously the imprint of Darth’s mask that most fans are after. Of course, the problem is that your toast will be incredibly inconsistent in texture and taste. The edges are browned, Darth is a little burned and the rest is practically raw. If they just added a sound track so it would play the Imperial March as it heated though, I think I could quickly forget those other problems .
If you start off your morning with a nice slice of Vader toast, why not finish up the evening with a nice frothy brew from your hefty Darth Vader stein? Just be sure you don’t drink enough that you end up getting seduced into joining the dark side.
I love merchandise that isn’t actually intended for use. Take this piece for example, what’s the point of making a R2D2 cookie jar if you can’t even put cookies inside of it? Sure it looks cool, but so would a statue. Really though if you really want this thing, don’t let the fact that it probably contains lead and will poison your cookies stop you from buying it. Instead, just fill it with store-bought, individually-wrapped cookies.
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This R2D2 peppermill is mighty cute and highly useful, but doesn’t it seem like a peppermill based on a droid should be an electric grinder? Even so, this manually-operated droid will still help spice up your seasonings cabinet.
R2’s simple shape has made him a favorite for kitchen accessories, which makes it no wonder that he also works as an ideal soy sauce dispenser. Serve up your sushi with this cute soy sauce holder and some awesome lightsaber chopsticks and your guests will be sure to understand that they’re in for a dinner that’s out of this world…perhaps even from a galaxy far, far away.
Roastmyweenie.com made these awesome, unauthorized grill accessories back in 2008, but any mention of them seems to be stripped from the website, which means they probably got in trouble for copyright infringement.
Nevertheless, there’s something delightfully fun about a weenie roaster that looks like it’s about to fly into the death star for an epic battle scene. And how wonderfully intimidating are those hot dog missiles?
I have never been so bummed that a piece of merchandise wasn’t actually made until I saw this barbecue. I mean, who wouldn’t want to own this? These days, this thing would be even more awesome because you could not only use it to grill up some grub, you could also buy a spare and fill it with lighter fluid and other flammables and then shoot it so it would explode. Then you could put the video on YouTube for instant internet celebrity status as a real-life Luke Skywalker…then again, maybe it’s thinking like this that led them to can the idea.
This is another rejected piece of merchandise that is simply too good to have not made it to the market. The only way this could be better would be if it were a regular fridge so Hans could be closer to life size. Can you imagine a cooler refrigerator for a bachelor pad? I sure can’t.
While you may not be able to actually own your own Hans Solo mini fridge, you could always try asking artist Robert Saccenti to make you a recreation of his artistic rendition of Hans Solo frozen in guacamole, titled, “He’s No Guac To Me Dead.”
While the thing used over 50 avocados worth of guacamole, you probably would want to skip actually eating it, considering Hans has silver paint and starch all over his body. Surprisingly, this guy only won second place for his presentation in the 2009 Guac Bowl. I call foul!
In space, giant slugs can be seriously bad news as they try to swallow your ship whole, but when you’re in the kitchen, space slugs can be quite “handy.” Now you can finally use an oven mitt without feeling like your grandma.
Now that you have all your space accessories, you’d better grab a Star Wars cookbook and get down with your wookie cookie-making self.
Terminator: The Sarah Conner Chronicles gets filled with all sorts of innuendos once you start bleeping out a few carefully-selected words. YouTube user allergygal writes:
Think of it as a really warped take on The Sarah Connor Chronicles… with lots of innuendo. And no plot. Also, much silliness. Bonus: an abundance of the F-word. Hope you laugh.
Tightrope walkers crossed the Han River in Korea without assistance. Get it? This appeared in an issue of The Washington Post. Very clever of the headline editor.
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This video is in Japanese, so I can’t give you any details, but it appears to be a live-action version of Pac-Man.
This one is a comedy, but we’ve also featured to live-action short horror films about Pac-Man, one from the ghosts’ perspective and one from Pac-Man’s.
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Goofus and Gallant is an educational comic that has appeared in Highlights for Children since 1948. It contrasts two boys, Goofus and Gallant. Gallant has good social skills and Goofus poor.
This spoof presents Captain America as Gallant and the anti-social Deadpool as Goofus. There are three more panels at the link. I don’t know who the artist is. Do you?
A sketch by the comedy troupe Big Dog Eat Child. The Ninja Turtles are growing up and starting to move on with their lives. But Michelangelo still thinks that he’s a teenager.
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Comments Off This is a commercial for, I guess, a telecommunications provider. Question: was it cheating for Vader to use the Force?
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Comments Off In this College Humor original video, brave soldiers find themselves at the mercy of a teenage boy playing Starcraft online. Poor bastards.
At first glance, this looks like a clip from a forgotten 80s children’s cartoon. The details are great, such as the station logo in the upper-left corner and the YouTube title designating this video as part of episode 12. But it’s actually a clever parody of one little bit of modern Internet life. Enjoy this short adventure of Princess Galactica and Marshall Renegade created by the animation house SFA.
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The pop culture blog Urlesque has a great roundup of the vuvuzela meme, including this gem by YouTube user PistolShrimps. It shows the Fellowship both accompanying people with vuvuzelas and attacking orcs armed with them. The song is “Taking the Hobbits to Isengard” by Erwin Beekveld.
Link | Previously: For Rohan!
The Doctor and Rose face a French Dalek. “I fart in your general direction! Your mother was a hamster and your father….”
I liked them better when they were just trying to exterminate us.
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This clever mashup by YouTube user solidbronze presents information about the Daleks as though reading from an entry in The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. It speaks at length about Davros, the creator of the Daleks. A selection:
It was only after his final creation of the Daleks was signed off and filed that Davros spotted the major flaw in the design of these would-be conquerors. Unwilling to admit that his perambulatory calculations might be slightly askew, Davros spent the next two hundred years after his death trying to conceptualize a way for his galaxy-traversing warriors to navigate stairs, without resorting to the obvious solution: legs.
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Please. God. No.
Well, thankfully, this is a photoshop job and not an actual product under development.
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Previously: For Rohan!
Oh, Gimli! You know just how to inspire us to acts of courage.
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“Run this Raid” is a World of Warcraft-themed parody of the Jay-Z song “Run this Town”.
You think we need to achieve more?
What you PvP for? Honor f@#kin’ rewards?
But you know I’m done level grinding
Killing creeps and mobs, that ain’t nothing
I came to fight a real war, not go hunting
Only gear you got is gear from gold farming
While you’re out spending all day in the real sun
I’m in-game, what, having real fun
Shift function, I’ll target you, son
Holy Light so bright you wish you had one
You like a n00b who don’t know how to auto-run
Hit my level cap you haven’t even begun
You sleepin’, AFK? Come on, pay attention!
This is Warcraft, not a Neopets session!
Full lyrics and credits are available at the video link.
Previously: Galactic Empire State of Mind
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Beware the jackass side of the Force. Once you journey down its path, forever will it dominate your destiny.
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Sadly, this is a photoshop. Which is a shame, because Patrick Stewart’s recently knighting by Queen Elizabeth would have been all the more awesome.
At least, I assume that it’s a photoshop. Maybe it’s real. If so, she should have cleaned the right-most tine a little more.
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I don’t know who the artist is, but he doesn’t have a lot of confidence in Imperial military recruiting efforts.
Also Franz Beckenbauer, Noel Gallagher, Ian Brown, Ciara, Jay Baruchel, DJ Neil Armstrong. But the best part is Snoop Dogg getting into a barfight.
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This explanation in the webcomic Johnny Wander by Ananth Panagariya and Yuko Ota makes as much sense as anything else I’ve heard.
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Blame Society Productions, the comedy studio responsible for the Chad Vader series, made a video of comic Brad Knight doing impressions of monsters from 1st edition Dungeons & Dragons.
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Redditor unnamed_player found or created an org chart for a university staffed by video game characters. Pictured above is one piece of it. Leisure Suit Larry as a women’s studies professor? Sure.
The humorists at Mauvais Oeil have a great and very lengthy presentation of Darth Vader’s Facebook page, including selections from the episodes 1-3. Yes, the Star Wars Facebook thing has been done before. But not this well. Content warning: some foul language.
FeministHulk is a Twitter feed that consists of the Incredible Hulk’s opposition to traditional gender roles instituted the patriarchy of contemporary human society. Or, more simply, the Hulk is a feminist.
I discovered FeministHulk via Comics Alliance, which has posted tweets from other feminist superheroes, including Spider-Man, Captain America, and Green Arrow.
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Comics commentator and humorist Chris Sims suggests how six superheroes would write term papers and how they would be graded. Peter Parker apparently understands physics, but not superhero physics.
Comments Off Why is this classic Nintendo game so frustrating? Because the dog has rigged it to be that way.
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